{"product_id":"years-the-4","title":"Years, The","description":"''Memory pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.'' \u003cbr\u003e She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks... A child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and men''s bodies. Click. An activist fighting for the right to choose. Click. A wife picking out a velvet sofa. Click. A mother taking her eldest to judo. Click. A lover, seducing a younger man. Click. A grandmother presenting her granddaughter to the camera. Click.\u003cbr\u003eThe Years\/Les années is Annie Ernaux''s critically acclaimed ''masterpiece'' (Guardian), charting a woman''s personal and political life against the backdrop of a rapidly changing post-war Europe.Eline Arbo''s inventive stage adaptation was premiered as De jaren by Het Nationale Theater in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022. It was first performed, in an English-language version by Stephanie Bain ? after the translations by Alison L. Strayer and Tanya Leslie ? at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2024, with a cast of five women collectively bringing to life the story of one woman, and a whole continent.This new edition of the play is published alongside the West End transfer in 2025.","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58680478564687,"sku":"9781839044496","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781839044496_1-years-the.jpg?v=1788580103","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/years-the-4","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}